Gas Tax Repeal Would Be a Disaster, Say Cities
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Cities, counties, and transit agencies say that S.B. 1, for the first time, gives them a reliable funding stream for maintenance and repair.
Eyes on the Street: MyFigueroa Goes Green, Looks Nearly Ready
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With new green paint in the new protected bike lanes, construction on MyFigueroa appears to be nearing completion.
Eyes on the Street: The McAllister Makeover
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This spring, as part of the Muni Forward project, the city installed two new traffic circles and two new signals on McAllister Street to improve the performance of the 5 Fulton bus.
Why Affordable Housing Is So Important for Development Near Transit
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What happens when you build housing around transit, but it's not affordable to the people who ride transit the most?
Today’s Headlines
|- Gas tax opponents are throwing everything they can think of (CBS, LA Times)
- Metro wants light rail along Van Nuys Blvd (Los Angeles Daily News)
- Fremont extends deadline for survey on Mobility Action Plan (Patch)
- Fight continues over future of unused Santa Cruz rail corridor (Good Times)
- Starting in July, bus passengers need to wear seatbelts—if there are any (Big Bear Grizzly)
- LAPD adds 20 e-bikes to its patrol fleet (Daily News)
- Bill to allow ads on highway message signs is not popular (Capitol Weekly)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
OCTA Transit Committee Revokes BRT/Streetcar Study for Central Harbor Boulevard
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Santa Ana and Garden Grove want to extend the OC Streetcar and improve transit, but Anaheim and Fullerton oppose a streetcar option--and any project that would take away a general-use lane for transit.
Miami’s Mindless Highway Addiction Gets the Mockery It Deserves
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A 15-mile highway extension would bring sprawl to the edge of the Everglades and drain resources that could be used for transit.
Guest Commentary: Tips for a Tunnel Shutdown
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The needs of transit riders must come first during the Twin Peaks tunnel summer shutdown
Making Traffic Signals Fair for Pedestrians
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Traffic engineering conventions deprive people on foot of sufficient time to cross the street. We should change that.
Today’s Headlines
|- Koch brothers are pouring money into fighting transit projects (New York Times)
- CA congressional rep introduces federal bill to protect bus drivers from attack (SGVT)
- To build a better bus system, ask bus drivers (CityLab)
- Bay Area transit costs are among the highest in the nation, but they don’t have to be (Curbed)
- My other bike is a vessel of light (Dirt Rag)
- Helping communities cope with climate change (Capitol Weekly)
- To reduce emissions, charge fees (State Smart Transportation Initiative)
- CA to test license plates with changing messages (IEEE)
- State considers selling commercial ads on electronic highway safety signs (Future Structure)
- What if autonomous vehicles make us more dependent on cars? What if they make us less safe? (The Conversation)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
San Francisco’s Hidden Holocaust Memorial
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It's a beautiful and powerful statement about tolerance--that's very hard to access